Child&#39;s safety scissors



April 3, 1952 w. M. STILWELL ET AL 2,591,740

CHILDS SAFETY SCISSORS 2 SHEET-SSHEET 1 Filed Feb. 5, 1950 5% E 1T Mam/w m m MM Wm H/ T w z Y B A ril 8, 1952 w. M. STILWELL ET AL 2,591,740

- CHILDS SAFETY SCISSORS Filed Feb. 3, 1950 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 v Min s/W Patented Apr. 8, 1952 CHILDS SAFETY SCISSORS Wilber M. Stilwell and Gladys F. Stilwell, Vex-million, S. Dali.

Application February 3, 1950, Serial No. 142,196

1 Claim.

Our invention relates to a scissors for childrens use.

The principal object of our invention is to provide a scissors which is completely safe in that there. are no sharpened edges with which the child can come in contact, and which includes further attendant features wherein certain portions of the scissors provide an efficient guard.

A further object of our invention is to provide a scissors wherein preferred forms, the guard is in the form of an enlarged plate which will cover the cutting blade during any position of said blade.

A further object of our invention is to provide a scissors having the above Lfeatures which also is easily operated and simple of manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, our invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts of our device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in our claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of one type of the scissors,

Figure 2 is a modified form,

Figure 3 is a sectional view of Figure 2 taken along the lines 3-3 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a detail, and

Figure 5 is a further modification.

Our invention contemplates the provision of a simple scissors which can be used by children, such scissors having certain features wherein none of the cutting edges of the scissors can contact the child in any way, and the scissors further being adaptable so that there are provided guard plates of suflicient size so that these plates can be ornamented with suitable attractive designs and the like.

Figure 1 illustrates one of the preferred forms of the invention in which the character l0 designates a plate, said plate being made of any suitable material such as plastic, metal or a y other material, the plate having the upper arouate boundaries H, the plate further being attached to one of the finger portions l2 formed integrally therewith.

Pivoted by means of a suitable pin l3 to the flat plate I0 is the cutting element I4 having the lower edge t5, the' member l4 terminating in the further finger grip portion [6.

The member Ill also includes the lower portion I! having the curved edge It, and formed within the portions l0 and I1 is a lengthened slot I!) which is preferably slightly larger at its outer end 20 for the ready insertion of the material to be cut.

The portions Ill and I1 terminate in the blunt rounded portions 2|, and formed integrally with the portion I1 is a thickened portion 22, such thickened portion being adapted to snugly engage, the cutting portion I4 to thereby provide an efficient cutting engagement at all times. i

It will be noted that the outer edge 23 of the member I4 will always be within the radius of the curved portion l l. The reason for this structure is that when the child is cutting the material, this edge will always be within the bounaries of the plate In as will be the edge l5, thereby insuring that the child will not be cut by the edge or any other portion of the scissors. The material, which is indicated by the dotted lines character 24, is fed into the slot H) as shown, and thence with the usual shearing action imparted by the finger portions [2 and I6, the material is cut without injury to the child.

Figure 3 illustrates a modified form wherein a pair of outer plates 25 of identical conformation are employed, having the finger portions 26 with a spacer at 21, further spacers being indicated by the characters 28 and '29, the plates 25 having the lengthened slots 30.

In this structure a cutting blade 3| is interposed between the plates 25 and is pivotally engaged on the pin 32, the pin 32 having the reduced portions at 33, the larger portion '32 of which permits the scissors to engage one side of the plate without interference with the other side, the scissors being of slightly lesser width than the distance between the plates. The cutting member 3| includes the finger portion 34. This arrangement provides a double guard on either side and provides similar functions to that described in Figure 1.

Figure 5 illustrates a further form wherein the fiat member 35 includes a raised edge 36 which limits the movement of the pivoted blade 31 as is clearly shown to thereby also provide a guard feature, the blade 31 being pivoted at 38, and having the edge 39 and blunt portions 40 and also having the finger portion 4|, the plate 35 having the finger portion 42. The material receiving slot is indicated by the character 43. It will be noted that this latter sructure also includes guard features as well. In this latter structure the members 42 and 4| can abut as can the finger portions in the other figures to limit downward movement of the cutting blade.

It will now be seen that we have provided the various advantages set forth in the objects of our invention with various other advantages being readily apparent.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts of our invention without departing from the real spirit and purpose of our invention, and it is our intention to cover by our claim any modified [forms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents which maybe reasonably included within its scope.

We claim as our invention:

A child's safety scissors comprising a plate member having a lengthened slot therein, a 'cutting blade member pivotally attached to said plate member adapted to pivot *pastsaid slot to provide means for cutting of material received in said slot, said plate member being of sumcient area so that the boundaries of saidcutting blade are always within the outer edge of said plate member to prevent accidental contact of said cutting portions with an operator of said scissors, said cutting blade and plate member having finger grip portions, said plate member having a thickened portion adjacent to the cutting edge of said blade to provide constant cutting edges.

WILBER M. SI'ILWELL.

GLADYS REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this-patent:

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